out student loans. one who supports the biden plan and one very much against joining us later this hour. but first. oh my god. dana: severe weather everywhere. this is a rare outbreak in june underway across the southeast putting millions of americans in danger. western oklahoma and kansas across the south and into the florida panhandle. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, we ll get you all of that news. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. blistering wind, massive hail stones, heavy rain and dangerous tornadoes cutting a path across 12 different states. it s going to roar! dana: this tornado yesterday raging across southern georgia damaging several homes. nearly 20 million people facing weather threats today as a new round of storms will begin firing up early this afternoon. nicole valdez is reporting for fox weather. you are live in alabama. how does it look this morning? dana and bill from alabama, a town of just over 12,000
refusing to leave the coffee shop. the regional director who was overseeing that store says she was fired in the aftermath just because she was white. and a jury agreed with her. awarding her more than $25 million for the ordeal. i m john roberts in washington, that s the way we start off a friday eve. sandra: a big development. great to be with you, john. this is america reports. shannon phillips oversaw several areas for starbucks, including philadelphia at the time of that 2018 incident. the two men were handcuffed and escorted out of that store after they declined to leave because they were waiting on a business associate. phillips was not at the store at the time but claims starbucks used her as a scapegoat to prove it was taking action in response to the controversy. the company says phillips was fired because she demonstrated an absence of leadership during the crisis. a new jersey jury sided with phillips, awarding her $25 million in punitive damages and $600,
including treatment. the problem is, only 32 people have called the health line in portland. only six completed the health assessment and ten people paid the $1 hundred ticket. very few people are getting into treatment. the bike patrol is catching other criminals. car thieves, drug dealers and more. most driven by fentanyl. we are making warrant arrests and clearing more warrant and finding wanted people. if they end up getting treatment it is up to them. portland police confiscated 1.5 million fentanyl pills last year, triple the previous year and swept an abandoned office building and turned into a drug den. camping is now illegal throughout the stechlt at this point this decriminalization law has been nothing but a disaster
john: drug crisis spiralling out of control in portland, oregon, encouraging addicts to get treatment. dan springer in portland. what did you see, dan? unfortunately, a lot of human misery but also a city at rock bottom, trying to get off the mat. in may they started this relatively new strategy of writing a lot more of these tickets in hopes of nudging more people into treatment. last month the police wrote 316 tickets for drug possession, in the two and a half years since the voter approved decriminalization law took effect, 14 tickets a month before that. $100 ticket, fines could be waived if they seek health assessment. no punishment if the user does nothing. out of 700 ticketed, only six got an assessment, and they
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On February 22, 2021, Governor Phil Murphy signed the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“NJCREAMMA”), which legalizes the recreational use of cannabis for adults age 21 and over. On that same date, Governor Murphy also signed the companion cannabis decriminalization bill (A1897) (the “Decriminalization Law”) and the “Clean Up” bill (S3454), which decriminalize cannabis and address penalties for the possession and consumption of cannabis by individuals who are under 21 years old.
NJCREAMMA provides various employment protections for employees who use cannabis recreationally and imposes strenuous requirements on New Jersey employers that conduct drug testing for the presence of cannabis in an individual’s system. While some provisions of NJCREAMMA became effective immediately, the employment-related provisions do not become enforceable until the Cann